CPD Course for Accountants

This course covers the many challenges, both ethical as well as other, for those who work within the accountancy industry. The course provides a basis for the identification as well as discussion of some of these challenges, as well as for differentiating ethical issues as well as  challenges from the non-ethical. It discusses ethics in the context of organisational culture, as well as enables participants to understand the ethical implications and also the actions within the work context.

Includes

3 Hours of on-demand video
11 Articles
11 Downloadable resources
Access on any computer, tablet as well as smartphone via the Internet
Certificate of completion

Curriculum for this course

Module 1: What is ethics?

• Answers the question: what is ethics?
• What does ethics study?
• As well as concepts studied in ethics
• And why bother with ethics

Module 2: Ethical behaviour

• Ethical behaviour
• As well as explaining moral standards
• Normative ethics: theories

Module 3: Engaging with ethics

• What does ethics mean?
• Basis for ethical judgements
• Relativism
• Culture 
• As well as Law

Module 4: Normative ethics – Aristotle

• Normative ethics: recall
• Aristotle: humans, ethics as well as virtues
• And also Critique

Module 5: Normative ethics – Consequentialism

• Consequentialist approaches to ethics
• Utilitarianism
• Critique
• As well as Activity

Curriculum for this course

Module 6: Normative ethics – Deontology

• Kant’s approach to ethics
• As well as what help does deontology give us?

Module 7: Justice as well as caring

• Justice approaches to ethics
• As well as types of justice
• Caring approaches to ethics
• Summary: Normative ethics

Module 8: Ethical decision making – Contexts

• Contexts
• As well as Organisational culture

Module 9: Ethical decision making – Moral reasoning

• Guidelines for ethical decision making
• As well as Ethical decision-making process

Module 10A: Additional for accountants

• Results of unethical behaviour
• The professions as well as ethics
• SAICA as well as IRBA codes

Module 10B: SAICA codes

• SAICA code part A: 5 principals
  And SAICA code part B
  Also SAICA code part C
  As well as Reminders from earlier modules

About the Lecturer

Professor Marilise Smurthwaite

BA(Hons) English (Wits); BA(Hons) Communications (Unisa); HED (Unisa); MPhil in Applied Ethics, DPhil (St Augustine)

Professor Marilise Smurthwaite is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at St Augustine College of South Africa. She was previously the Academic Dean of the College and held The Bishop Fürst Chair of Applied Ethics in Catholic Social Teaching.

Professor Smurthwaite’s areas of interest include business ethics education at postgraduate level. Her areas of research and publication include the corporation as well as economic justice in South Africa, Catholic Social Thought, especially as an ethical framework for examining the economy and related issues as well as ethical business leadership.